Friday, February 29, 2008

RE: AISC eLearning

Just curious, Robert, but where can you get free PDHs?

For me, it is understood.

Regards,

T. William (Bill) Allen, S.E. (CA#2607)
Allen Designs
Consulting Structural Engineers
San Juan Capistrano, CA

---- "Garner wrote:
> While these are excellent resources and I greatly appreciate their
> presentation by AISC, I feel it would have been less misleading had you
> said "They are free for anyone to watch, but there is a fee for
> obtaining pdh's............."
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> As engineers, it is our responsibility to portray things honestly and
> objectively, and not to conceal information of which we are aware.
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> Respectfully,
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> Robert Garner, S.E.
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> ________________________________
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> From: Hewitt, Chris [mailto:hewitt@aisc.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:24 PM
> To: seaint@seaint.org
> Subject: AISC eLearning
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> Hi,
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> If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, I would recommend that
> members of this list have a look at AISC's new online educational
> programs at www.aisc.org/elearning <http://www.aisc.org/elearning> .
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> They're all free for anyone to watch and are a great resource that you
> can take advantage of right from your desk or at home.
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> This month we've released a "boxed lunch" presentation by Shankar Nair
> on the Stability Provisions of the AISC Specification, which I am sure
> is of interest to many structural engineers learning the new design
> specification. Dr. Nair is an excellent speaker and he was the winner
> of the 2007 AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award for this work. The
> presentation gives an overview of stability design and also reviews the
> Direct Analysis Method, which is a new approach to stability design that
> allows engineers to design all of their frame columns with K = 1 when
> incorporating notional loads and reduced member stiffnesses into the
> design model.
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> I hope that you find this to be a useful resource. If you have any
> questions, feel free to drop me a line.
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> Chris
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> Christopher M. Hewitt, S.E., LEED A.P.
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> AISC Senior Engineer
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T. William (Bill) Allen, S.E.
ALLEN DESIGNS
Consulting Structural Engineers

Have a kilo-mile day!
Bill Allen
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San Juan Capistrano, CA
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